Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Kenyan author and dissident who became a giant of modern literature, dies at 87

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kenyan author who reckoned with colonial legacy, dies at 87

Celebrated Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o, whose sharp criticisms of post-independence elites led to his jailing and two decade in exile, has died at the age of 87, Kenya's president said.

Kenyan author Ngugi dies at 87

NEW YORK — Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the revered Kenyan man of letters and voice of dissent who in dozens of fiction and nonfiction books traced his country's history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and challenged not only the stories…

Weep Not, Child: A tribute to Africa’s literary giant, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.

Ngũgĩ’s work, just as that of Aimé Cesaire and Franz Fanon, holds legacy power. He stands as a revolutionary whose pen served as a weapon of resistance.

He was persecuted, imprisoned, threatened with death, but Ng such wa Thiong is not silenced and deserves the Nobel Prize. Now one of Africa's greatest authors has died.

He was the »Nobel Prize Laureate of the Hearts«: For years, he was considered to be the candidate for the most important literary award. Now the great Kenyan writer has died uncrowned, he was 87 years old.

The Kenyan writer Ngttle wa Thiong'o died at the age of 87. He was considered one of the most important authors from the East of Africa and was traded as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.